Elphinstone Engineering is an Australian company which manufactures specialised trailers for the transport industry and equipment for weighing trucks, including on-board scales that weigh the load. It focuses particularly on support for forestry. It has facilities at Triabunna in

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and Sunshine West in Victoria. The company was founded by Graeme Elphinstone in 1976. Graeme Elphinstone's brother Dale owns a similarly named company based in

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban pop ...

. Elphinstone produces skeleton trailers and B-doubles for the timber industry that fold up for easier transport when empty, and that can weigh the load. On 14 December 2020 it was announced that Elphinstone Engineering is now part of the new Bustech Group.‘BUSTECH GROUP’ ANNOUNCED; AUST BUS CORP REBRANDED
Australasian Bus & Coach 14 December 2020

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